Happy Mother’s Day by Guest Blogger, My Son

By Ilana Angel
Published on May 11, 2013

Mother’s Day: Redefined

Published on May 10, 2013

There are tons of stereotypes about Jewish women … the overbearing matriarch, the do-it-all maven, the neurotic meshugennah, the your-business-is-my-business yenta.

Saying Goodbye

By Ilana Angel
Published on August 16, 2012

Visiting My Father

By Ilana Angel
Published on August 15, 2012

My Mother, My Son, Myself—Happy Mother’s Day

By Ilana Angel
Published on May 13, 2012

Homework: Perspectives of a Mother & her Son

By Ilana Angel
Published on April 23, 2012

A Nightmare 16 Years In The Making

By Ilana Angel
Published on April 9, 2012

Mom vs. Mooooooooooom

By Ilana Angel
Published on March 12, 2012

Happy Sweet 16

By Ilana Angel
Published on January 18, 2012

HOOTERS, children and me being the greatest parent that ever lived…

By Julia Bendis
Published on January 3, 2012

Brandi Glanville, LeAnn Rimes & Twitter

By Ilana Angel
Published on December 23, 2011

A Teenager Drives, A Teenager Dies & a Mother Cries

By Ilana Angel
Published on August 25, 2011

Natalie Portman ponders coming out of maternity leave

By Lauren Bottner
Published on August 25, 2011

Express Lines, Personal Space, Stupid People & Meeting Weird Men

By Ilana Angel
Published on August 5, 2011

The Son Will Come Out Tomorrow!

By Ilana Angel
Published on July 31, 2011

A Mother Who Loves Her Child and a Child Who Loves Her Mother

By Ilana Angel
Published on July 29, 2011

A Teenage Boy, a Laughing Mom, Sex, Condoms & a Twitching Eye

By Ilana Angel
Published on July 6, 2011

A Single Mom, Summer Vacation, Crying, Irrational Behavior & Being Single

By Ilana Angel
Published on June 30, 2011

Soviet Dentists and My Anxiety…

By Julia Bendis
Published on June 13, 2011

Jury Duty!

By Julia Bendis
Published on May 23, 2011

What a 45 year old Divorced, Jewish, Single Mom Blogger Knows For Sure

By Ilana Angel
Published on April 7, 2011

Chicken nuggets vs. my kids school lunches, Oye Vay…

By Julia Bendis
Published on March 11, 2011

The Real Housewives of O.C. Are Back!

By Julia Bendis
Published on March 7, 2011

Mommy Camp

By Dikla Kadosh
Published on March 2, 2011

Super Bowl XLV

By Julia Bendis
Published on February 8, 2011

My Interview with the Department of Homeland Security!

By Julia Bendis
Published on February 1, 2011

Jewish moms taking offense to ‘Tiger Mother’

Published on January 25, 2011

With her take-no-prisoners approach in “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” author Amy Chua has drawn the ire of mothers across America who take exception to the draconian measures she recommends to ensure successful, prodigious offspring. So it's little surprise that prominent among her critics are another group famous -- infamous, some might say -- for what they have to say about how best to be a parent: Jewish mothers. Chua's book and a synopsis she wrote in The Wall Street Journal on Jan. 8, “Why Chinese Moms are Superior,” lay out her parental rules -- no sleepovers, no play dates, no television -- and admiringly relate a story of how she once reduced her daughter to tears when she couldn't play a piano piece.

Very random thoughts…

By Julia Bendis
Published on January 21, 2011

Letters to Mom

By Rabbi Haim Ovadia
Published on November 2, 2006

The message that no action goes unnoticed or unaccounted for and that communication is essential to a healthy family and society.

Brachas vs. bluegrass: moms make the switch

By Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
Published on October 5, 2006

The Season premiere of FOX's "Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy." The very intriguing but highly unlikely pairing of a Shomer Shabbos Jewish family from Brookline, Mass. (near Boston), and a coon-huntin' family from Olympia, Ky.

Susanna Hoffs walks like a -- rockstar no, a mom -- rockstar/mom

By Tom Teicholz
Published on September 28, 2006

How did a nice Jewish girl from Santa Monica become a rock star?

Fight or flight? A Jewish Cuban mom wonders

By Robert David Jaffee
Published on September 14, 2006

Melinda Lopez's "Sonia Flew," which opens at the Laguna Playhouse on Sept. 16, depicts the parallel struggles of a Cuban girl in 1961 and a half-Jewish, half-Cuban American boy just after Sept. 11.

I Was Kid Free and Guilt Free!  For A Week!

By Randye Hoder
Published on August 31, 2006

My children were unexpectedly away for a week this summer, and I didn't miss them a bit.

Don’t Think Of Me As Different—I’m Not

By Rachel Core
Published on July 13, 2006

My name is Rachel, and I am a Jewish American girl who was born in China.

My Yiddische Mama

Published on May 11, 2006

Up Front

Get Married Without Disowning Your Mom

By Carin Davis
Published on November 10, 2005

Many a wedding have lead to knockout, throw-down arguments between mother and daughter. Should it be black tie or California casual? Meat or fish? DJ or band? Should there be fewer guests at a lavish wedding or more guests at a bare-bones one? And why should cousin Sally, who the bride hasn't seen since her sweet 16, get an invite over a co-worker?

Jewish Mom for the Straight Guy

By Andrew Wallenstein
Published on December 11, 2003

When my father informed me he had scheduled a business trip to Los Angeles and was taking my mother with him about a month after I moved out here, his timing seemed less than coincidental. Both of my parents had been anxiously phoning me on a daily basis since I left New York. The real reason they were coming was to make sure I wasn't living in a crack house, or at the very least had the decency to choose a Jewish crack house.

Kids Page

By Abby Gilad
Published on May 8, 2003

There is a lot of teaching going on in Parshat Emor.